README for X11R7.6

X11R7.6 is an Open Source version of the X Window System that
supports many UNIX® and UNIX-like
operating systems (such as Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris)
on a variety of platforms. This version is compatible with
X11R7.5 and other X Window System implementations which support
the X11 standard.

What is X11R7.6?

X11R7.6 is the seventh release in the X11R7 series.
Tarballs for packages that have had updates since the 7.5 release
are included in this release. To build this release, you will first need to
get the packages from X11R7.5 and then add the new packages from
X11R7.6 to them.

Most modern PC video hardware is supported in this release, and most PC
video hardware that isn't supported explicitly can be used with the
"vesa" driver. The Release Notes
has a table showing the drivers provided with X11R7.6, and links to
related documentation.

The X.Org Foundation X releases are produced by the X.Org Foundation.
The X.Org Foundation has been formed as a Delaware corporation organized
to operate as a scientific charity under IRS code 501(c)(3) chartered
to develop and execute effective strategies which provide world-wide
stewardship of the X Window System technology and standards. Membership
in the X.Org Foundation is free to all participants. Applications for
Membership are now being accepted, and active participants in the
further development of the X Window Technology are invited to complete a
membership application. The X11R7.6 release has been
produced by the many contributors to the X.Org community and members of
the X.Org Foundation and includes code from the X Consortium, the Open
Group and the XFree86® Project.
This release is dedicated to the greater X community, developers and
users alike.

Licensing

X Window System source code is covered by many licenses. All of these
licenses have in common the fact that they do not impose significant
conditions on the modification or redistribution or either source code
or binaries beyond requiring one or more of the following:

Most of these licenses are based on the MIT, X Consortium, or BSD
(original and revised) licenses. All of them are consistent with the
Open Source Definition, and most are
consistent with the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Definition.

Copyright and Licensing information for X, including the reproduction
of copyright and/or license notices and attributions required by some
of the licenses for binary distributions, can be found in the License Document. If you find any omissions
in that document, please contact us with details at
<xorg@lists.freedesktop.org>.
While the current licenses are all open source licenses, the
X.Org Foundation is attempting, with time, to bring as much as
possible of the code's licenses in the distribution into compliance with the
Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Pointers to additional information

The documentation for this release can be found online at the X.Org web site.

The X11 version numbering system (including historical information)
can be found in the Versions Document.

Contributing to the X.Org Foundation's X efforts.

If you have any new work or enhancements/bug fixes for existing work,
please send them as git format patches to
<xorg-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> or to our
bug tracking system
using the xorg component. This will help ensure that they are included
in future releases. More details on patch submission and review
process are available on the
SubmittingPatches page of the X.Org wiki.

How to get the release

X11R7.6

This is the seventh release of the new modular source code tree. The
source code has been split into nine logical modules: app, data, doc,
driver, font, lib. proto, util and xserver. Each of these modules
contain one or more packages that can be configured, built and installed
separately. Please see an X11R7.6 release site for a complete
list of the tarballs.

For information on how to build the modular tree packages see the Modular Developer's Guide. This guide also
contains information for developers who want to help improve the modular
build system and modular code base.

The current development tree

The X source code for this and all releases/snapshots as well as
development versions can also be accessed via the Freedesktop.org git
repository. It's also possible to browse the freedesktop git repository.

To check out the latest development version, don't specify any tag.

Reporting Bugs

Bugs should be reported to freedesktop.org's bug tracking system
using the xorg component. Before
reporting bugs, please check the server log file, which can be found at
/var/log/Xorg.0.log on most platforms. If you can't
resolve the problem yourself, send the entire log file with your bug report but
not the operating system core dump. Do not edit the log file as our
developers use it to reproduce and debug your problem. Please attach it
to your bug report.